Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

In 2022, the ICICI Bank’s resources were named a “critical information infrastructure” by the Indian government – any harm to it can impact national security. However, despite the critical status of bank infrastructure on the national level, the security of crucial data was not ensured.

Personal data 97

Personal data Phishing Risk Financial Services 97

Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The statement explains that “[t]here are over 5,000 UK companies operating in the UAE, many of which depend on the free and secure flow of safe data across borders.” The DIFC has already recognized the UK’s strong data protections and the UK is now in the advanced stages of its technical data protection assessment of the DIFC.

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Government Financial Services Personal data Security 61

Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 17, 2012

On October 15, 2012, the Singapore Parliament passed the Personal Data Protection Act 2012. The new law will apply only to data processing in the private sector as data processing by public agencies (or organizations acting on behalf of public agencies) are already subject to internal government rules.

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Personal data Financial Services Data Privacy Data breaches 45

Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 24, 2022

On October 18, 2022, the New York Department of Financial Services announced a settlement with EyeMed, a licensed life, accident, and health insurer, with respect to a security incident that occurred in 2020. The settlement requires EyeMed to pay $4.5 million, among other things. Background. million. 23 NYCRR § 500.13.

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Cybersecurity Personal data Risk Financial Services 52

Data Matters

JUNE 24, 2021

In the Order, the SEC alleges that First American’s disclosures concerning the vulnerability were deficient because senior executives were not provided all available and relevant information, specifically that First American’s information security personnel had identified and failed to remediate the vulnerability months earlier in January 2019.

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Cybersecurity Financial Services Risk Compliance 68

Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In total, information for approximately 2.1 The latter is the 2019 data security law known as the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act. When you enter personal information on our Site, we encrypt transmissions involving such information using secure protocols.”

Passwords 98

Passwords Financial Services Authentication Insurance 98

Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

Researchers uncovered an ongoing campaign delivering the Qbot malware to steal credentials from customers of dozens of US financial institutions. Security researchers at F5 Labs have spotted ongoing attacks using Qbot malware payloads to steal credentials from customers of dozens of US financial institutions. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Phishing Financial Services Personal data Security 101

Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

Personal data belonging to millions of customers of large businesses have been exposed due to a flaw in Onfido IDV. Millions of customers of large businesses have been left vulnerable to identity theft, thanks to a security flaw that exposes their personal data to illicit download. Verification process.

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Personal data Phishing Data breaches Passwords 87

Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The most significant action came in October, when the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information issued a €14.5million fine against German real estate company, Deutsche Wohnen SE, relating to the excessive retention of personal data. In the U.S.,

Privacy 144

Privacy Compliance Personal data Risk 144

CGI

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Security in the finance sector: Whose role is it anyway? Thomson Reuters was recently quoted as saying, “Increased regulation isn’t just a temporary challenge for global financial institutions—it’s the new reality.”. Finance service providers. Real-time payments demand the highest standards of service availability.

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IT Security Digital transformation Compliance 40

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

AUGUST 23, 2021

Instead the PIPL is a robust data privacy framework designed to safeguard individuals’ personal data against abuse, but at the same time to reflect cultural and business attitudes to data in China, as well as new technologies (including advances in AI, biometrics and data analytics), and to enable flows of personal data.

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Data Privacy Privacy Compliance Analytics 111

Hunton Privacy

JULY 17, 2015

On July 14, 2015, pursuant to an implementation requirement of Government Regulation 82 of 2012, the Indonesian government published the Draft Regulation of the Minister of Communication and Information (RPM) of the Protection of Personal Data in Electronic Systems (“Proposed Regulation”). 82 of 2012.

Personal data 40

Personal data Archiving Financial Services Communications 40

Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2022

Earmarked by the FBI as a particular threat to the financial service industry just over a year ago, the increase of internet traffic, data breaches and API usage all contribute to the perfect conditions for successful credential stuffing attacks. appeared first on Security Affairs. Provide unpredictable usernames.

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IT Passwords Authentication Data Privacy 75

Hunton Privacy

JULY 22, 2009

The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has announced today fines for three HSBC entities totaling £3 million for failing to have adequate systems and controls in place to protect their customers’ confidential data. The incident will reignite debate as to whether the UK should have a mandatory data breach law.

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Security Insurance Data breaches Personal data 40

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MAY 13, 2019

Of particular concern to state-level policymakers and enforcement authorities are business practices that in their view may contribute to security incidents. The insurance industry has not been immune from such scrutiny, and the imposition of business practice requirements intended to enhance cybersecurity sector-wide.

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Insurance Cybersecurity Data breaches Financial Services 40

Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The most significant action came in October, when the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information issued a €14.5million fine against German real estate company, Deutsche Wohnen SE, relating to the excessive retention of personal data. In the U.S.,

Privacy 52

Privacy Compliance Personal data Risk 52

Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The impetuses for the survey were the many significant changes the GDPR will bring to companies’ management and processing of personal data, their privacy compliance programs and their IT systems and infrastructure. The GDPR replaces Directive 95/46/EC and will become applicable in May 2018.

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GDPR Data Privacy Compliance Privacy 45

ARMA International

AUGUST 2, 2019

with Equifax in connection with a 2017 data breach that exposed sensitive, personal data of around 147 million people. According to the FTC’s press release, the data breach included “names and dates of birth, Social Security numbers, physical addresses, and other personal information that could lead to identity theft and fraud.”

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Cloud Data breaches Encryption Access 41

IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

Glosbe dictionary exposes almost 7 million records The multilingual online dictionary Glosbe left a MongoDB instance unsecured last year, exposing nearly 7 million users’ information, including personal data, encrypted passwords and social media identifiers. Glosbe did not reply, but the open instance was soon closed.

Data Privacy 87

Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 87

Data Matters

JANUARY 2, 2018

The May 25, 2018 effective date for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will no doubt be a central focus of 2018. Europe’s omnibus new framework for data protection law applies to (almost) all entities that collect and process EU personal data regardless of where the data are processed.

Cybersecurity 68

Cybersecurity Privacy Data breaches GDPR 68

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Related: Applying ‘zero trust’ to managed security services. Fortunately, the identity management space has attracted and inspired some of the best and brightest tech security innovators and entrepreneurs. Efforts to balance security and productivity sometimes backfired. It’s not for lack of trying.

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Access Government Authentication Data breaches 169

Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The Guidelines introduce heightened notice and opt-out requirements for the use of cookies, web beacons and similar technology, and they impose extensive requirements on the content and delivery of privacy notices generally (with respect to all personal data, not just data collected via cookies and other automated means).

Privacy 40

Privacy Personal data Data collection Financial Services 40

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 23, 2019

According to the 2019 Thales Data Threat Report-India Edition , digital transformation is well underway in India, with 41% of Indian respondents saying they are either aggressively disrupting the markets they participate in or embedding digital capabilities that enable greater organizational agility. Complexity is a Barrier to Data Security.

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Digital transformation Cloud Encryption Data Privacy 15

IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

Data breached: 4,186,879,104 messages. Keyboard app vulnerabilities reveal keystrokes to network eavesdroppers Security researchers have identified critical security vulnerabilities in Cloud-based pinyin keyboard apps from Baidu, Inc., Honor, Huawei, iFlytek, OPPO, Samsung Electronics, Tencent, Vivo and Xiaomi Technology.

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Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Security 94

Data Matters

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The Report, titled A Financial System That Creates Economic Opportunities: Asset Management and Insurance , identifies laws and regulations that are inconsistent with the Trump Administration’s Core Principles for financial regulation as set forth in Executive Order 13772 (Feb. 3, 2017), and makes recommendations to ensure alignment.

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Insurance Data breaches Security Cybersecurity 60

AIIM

JANUARY 10, 2019

One of the most notable blockchain skeptics – David Gerard –argues that if “you were silly enough to put personal data into an append-only ledger which is a proof-of-work blockchain — that’d be flat-out insane.”. While pseudonymization falls within GDPR protection as such data may be re-identified (i.e.

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Blockchain GDPR Privacy Personal data 115